| ▲ | fourside 5 hours ago |
| For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only. |
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| ▲ | notatoad 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode". |
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| ▲ | badc0ffee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Australia and NZ have postcodes, too. If they had made this a .co.uk rather than a .com, there would be no confusion. | |
| ▲ | fourside 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The site has since changed the content from when I made the comment. It used to say zip code in the label and error. | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Or the term "pub." In the US it's much more usual to say "bar." Maybe "tavern" but that sounds rather dated to my ear. | | |
| ▲ | Thews 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | When I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar. | | |
| ▲ | toasterlovin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My sense is that it is an affectation meant to indicate an aspiration to something more than a bar (and its coarse patrons). | |
| ▲ | selectodude 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s because everybody up there thinks that liking soccer makes them English. |
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| ▲ | tshaddox 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "Bar" is certainly the catch-all term in the U.S., but "pub" is also very widely understood to refer to a specific type of bar, especially (but not limited to) bars deliberately styled as Irish or British pubs. | | |
| ▲ | tracker1 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Along a similar note, I hate when a Bar is labelled as a "Pub" and doesn't serve food. IMO, in the US, if it's labelled a "pub" it should serve food. | | |
| ▲ | wat10000 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Come to Virginia, where it's outright illegal for any establishment serving alcohol to not also serve food (and not only must food be served, it must account for at least 45% of revenue). | | |
| ▲ | badc0ffee 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Do they make you order food with every round of drinks? I remember hearing about places like that from my dad, and it seems it would have worked better in the era of cheap drinks/low built-in alcohol taxes. | |
| ▲ | tracker1 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm nut sure I'd go that far... it's just I expect a "Pub" to include pub food. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | every now and then you'll find a public house or similarly named |
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| ▲ | 9rx 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Pub" is a fairly common term throughout the world. But "pub that needs you" made it pretty obvious that it was about pubs in England. | | |
| ▲ | thebruce87m an hour ago | parent [-] | | Did it? I put my postcode in and got nothing. It took browsing the map to discover it had no results for Scotland at all. | | |
| ▲ | 9rx an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yes. Being on the other side of the world, I've only ever heard of efforts to save English pubs. Thus, without more details, one knows that is what is being referred to. Perhaps Scotland has the same kind of movement happening at the local level, but something on a global website implies global context. | | |
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| ▲ | MisterTea 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I doubt most people would bother to think about that detail. |
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| ▲ | rcbdev an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Silly me, I entered an Austrian zip code out of principle. Did not expect it to work, though, of course. |
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| ▲ | xrownow 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Any plans to release the code? Would be nice to allow others to do something similar for their local pubs. |
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| ▲ | amouat 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seems to be England only. No results for Edinburgh. |
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| ▲ | eterm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Business rates are a devolved matter, Scotland set their own rates. | |
| ▲ | iso1631 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I see results on both sides of the border here, Wales and England. |
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| ▲ | imzadi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah, they could reduce confusion by changing "the government" to "the UK government." |
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| ▲ | Tom1380 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | If Americans did the same it would be great | | |
| ▲ | deelayman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is also a problem that exists within countries. My RSS feed is littered with Canadian independent (national) news agencies not defining what municipality article headlines relate to. E.g. "Mayor pushes back against province on xyz issue". Okay, that might be huge news for Timmins Ontario , but maybe BAU for Toronto. Even skimming the lead paragraph doesn't define the city often. *Editting with a point: Perhaps everyone assumes a local audience. | |
| ▲ | pierrec 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Americans, hm? I see what you did there. | |
| ▲ | RIMR 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good luck. Americans won't even differentiate Washington State and Washington D.C. Even the AP guidelines say that "Washington" is ubiquitous shorthand for "Washington D.C." and recommends against shortening it to "D.C." |
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